“Land on Mars, half a million dollars–a round trip ticket. It can be done.”–Elon Musk

“It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.”–Ray Bradbury

Even as NASA successfully deployed its latest Mars lander, Elon Musk was reasserting his intentions to go to Mars. Literally. Himself. I hope I live long enough to see if he makes it.

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–In a wide ranging interview, Elon Musk flatly stated that he doesn’t just want to send others to Mars, he wants to move there himself. He set the odds of his doing so at 70%. I’m guessing Vegas would set odds a bit longer than that.

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride”–John F. Kennedy.

I wonder how JFK would have felt about an electric bike ride. Yes, an eBike. They are coming, as everything, but everything, seems to be adding technology.

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“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture.”–Tom Stoppard

The future tech news continues to be dominated by artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and space commerce. Some of it is exciting, some of it is disturbing and some of it–well, I’m not sure what to think. When you read about an A.I. generated paiting fetching big bucks at auction, you just have to scratch your head.

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Portrait of Edmund Bellamy, produced by A.I.

ArtficialIntelligence–An A.I. generated painting has sold for $432,000 at auction. Is this why A.I. developers get paid so much? Christie’s had estimated a value of between $7,000 and $10,000–which on the surface of it seems excessive in itself. Apparently, some people have more money than they know what to do with.

“If I go to hotels, they always say, ‘Welcome back’, even when I’ve never been there before.“– Geena Davis

There’s a solution to Geena Davis’s problem. I don’t know if you’re going to like it. But I know the hotel workers of the world are scared to death of it. Even as the World Economic Forum projects that robots will create more jobs than they kill, hospitality workers around the world are talking unionizing to protect jobs if Alexa replaces them on the front desk.

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Automation/Future of Work–The New York Times reports that front desk robots and facial recognition may soon be coming to a hotel near you. And hotel workers around the world are not pleased.

“”The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.”–Carl Sandberg

If you circled the moon–alone–you’d probably wind up talking to it. And tonight we found out who Elon Musk plans to send around the moon as the first SpaceX lunar tourist. Undoubtedly, everbody will want a piece of him.

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“I could have gone on flying in space forever”–Yuri Gagarin

Move over, Buck Rogers. The U.S. administration wants to build a space force. With budget deficits approaching 10 figures, it could just be posturing–or wishful thinking. Elon Musk inisists he isn’t posturing on getting to Mars, though. He’s all over the space news this week–for a change.

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The Human Condition–Millennium Project CEO and State of The Future lead author, Jerome Glenn, says that we have done better than most people expected. He goes so far as to say, in this Seeking Delphi™ interview linked below, that “we are winning as a species.” He does acknowledge critical issues that could derail the trajectory of progress, however.

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”–Edgar Bergen

The future of work is a very “now” debate. While many see an A.I. job-killing armageddon over the next 10-20 years, others are more sanguine. This week’s stories include some new published points of view that lean to the more optimistic side.

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Automation/Future of Work–Worried about losing your job to A.I, robotics, or some such form of automation? According to this report in Next Big Future,the 2020’s AND 2030’S could see a tech-driven economic boom. Maybe it won’t be so bad.

Coming Soon–The next Seeking Delphi™ podcast will feature and interview with Jerome Glenn, co-founder and executive director of The Millennium Project, on their most recent edition of The State of The Future.